Re: Battleship & Obama

[Bill Anderson]

On 8/13/2016 5:15 PM, super70s wrote:
> I have watched Battleship for the first time after finding a used DVD
> for $1. I didn't really care for the movie but I was interested to see
> Pres. Obama in a cameo, when he's shown on a monitor on the side of a
> building saying something to the effect of "we're monitoring the
> situation in Hawaii.."
>
> I was just curious if any previous sitting presidents have agreed to be
> used in a dramatic film, I'm not talking about stock footage of speeches
> or documentaries.
>

Did President Obama agree? Is presidential approval really required for
something like this? I don't know. But the comments that follow this
article are full of Usenettish WAGs on the subject, if you enjoy that
sort of thing.

http://mentalfloss.com/article/68241/why-film-contact-annoyed-bill-clinton

http://goo.gl/RgwxSV

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[moviePig]

Seems unlikely he was even informed, much less in agreement. Note the
recent 'Mr. Robot' ep, wherein the Prez calls out the show's villains,
by name...

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[moviePig]

On 8/14/2016 4:19 PM, super70s wrote:
> In article <57b07ac8$0$54568$b1db1813$7946...@news.astraweb.com>,

> I was under the impression he filmed that short bit specifically for the
> film (not that hard to imagine when you consider some of the, shall we
> say, "unconventional" things he's done when interacting with the media).
>
> The only thing I can think of where stock footage would have been
> relevant is if a hurricane (or typhoon, whatever they call it over
> there) or tsunami had threatened Hawaii at some previous point in his
> presidency. Which is conceivable I guess.

If you're talking about 'Mr. Robot', I read somewhere (and who can doubt
me) that neither he nor Leon Panetta(?) contributed. Otoh, if you mean
BATTLESHIP, that could be different, owing to the irresistible power of
movies...

[Steve L]

On Sun, 14 Aug 2016 16:28:18 -0400, moviePig <pwal...@moviepig.com>

wrote:

>On 8/14/2016 4:19 PM, super70s wrote:
>> In article <57b07ac8$0$54568$b1db1813$7946...@news.astraweb.com>,
>> moviePig <pwal...@moviepig.com> wrote:
>>
>>> On 8/14/2016 9:32 AM, Bill Anderson wrote:
>>>> Did President Obama agree? Is presidential approval really required for
>>>> something like this? I don't know. But the comments that follow this
>>>> article are full of Usenettish WAGs on the subject, if you enjoy that
>>>> sort of thing.
>>>>
>>>> http://mentalfloss.com/article/68241/why-film-contact-annoyed-bill-
>>>> clinton
>>>>
>>>> http://goo.gl/RgwxSV
>>>
>>> Seems unlikely he was even informed, much less in agreement. Note the
>>> recent 'Mr. Robot' ep, wherein the Prez calls out the show's villains,
>>> by name...
>>
>> I was under the impression he filmed that short bit specifically for the
>> film (not that hard to imagine when you consider some of the, shall we
>> say, "unconventional" things he's done when interacting with the media).
>>
>> The only thing I can think of where stock footage would have been
>> relevant is if a hurricane (or typhoon, whatever they call it over
>> there) or tsunami had threatened Hawaii at some previous point in his
>> presidency. Which is conceivable I guess.
>
>If you're talking about 'Mr. Robot', I read somewhere (and who can doubt
>me) that neither he nor Leon Panetta(?) contributed.

It definitely sounded like an Obama impersonator to me.

>Otoh, if you mean
>BATTLESHIP, that could be different, owing to the irresistible power of
>movies...

But I *highly* doubt it.
.